Cricket has always pretended to be a meritocracy skill over reputation, form over folklore. But 2025 gleefully ripped that illusion apart. It was a year where giants lifted trophies and, paradoxically, slipped on banana peels laid by history’s underdogs. India won the Champions Trophy under Rohit Sharma. RCB finally discovered what silverware feels like. India […]
Cricket has always pretended to be a meritocracy skill over reputation, form over folklore. But 2025 gleefully ripped that illusion apart. It was a year where giants lifted trophies and, paradoxically, slipped on banana peels laid by history’s underdogs. India won the Champions Trophy under Rohit Sharma. RCB finally discovered what silverware feels like. India […]
It has been relatively recent that a significant portion of India’s winning ways in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) were due to both the Indian batting unit and their ability to score big runs by hitting boundaries. That is no longer the case, and it is a fairly subtle change for the Indian cricket team in 2025. […]
While India’s women’s World Cup victory came from their own talent, there were a number of additional factors that also contributed to this success: timing, temperament, and the ability to “peak” under extreme pressure. All of these elements were evident with the Indian Women’s ODI team in preparation for 2025. The ODI campaign included a […]
T20 cricket has a strange habit of making reputations in five seconds flat. One delivery, one mistimed swing, one unexpected name on the scoreboard, and suddenly the spotlight swivels. That’s exactly what happened when JSK’ debutant pacer Janco Smit sent Dewald Brevis, one of South Africa’s most explosive young batters, packing for just six runs […]
Indian cricket is rarely a straight-line proposition and has always enjoyed a good twist and turn. The Indian cricket team had a great 2025 season, as evidenced by the trophies they won, the rivals they suppressed, and the many new records set. However, under all of the celebration for a job well done was a […]
Test cricket is based upon contradictions. On the one hand, we celebrate epic battles of endurance lasting for five days; on the other hand, we cheer with excitement as a game ignites and comes to an end by lunchtime on day two of the battle. The fourth Ashes test played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground […]
India’s under-19 cricket team doesn’t go into a World Cup looking for a chance to redeem itself but rather with expectations of winning. It is this that makes the road to the 2026 U19 ODI World Cup so much more difficult than it would normally be. The two final losses in a row, the loss […]
Australia doesn’t announce T20 World Cup squads anymore; they hedge them. Pat Cummins being penciled into the 15 for February’s tournament in India and Sri Lanka is less a declaration of fitness and more a strategic placeholder. A captain named, a scan deferred, and a nation quietly holding its breath. Cummins’s back, described clinically […]
For nearly a decade and a half, the Vijay Hazare Trophy existed in Virat Kohli’s career as a footnote, respected, remembered, but largely bypassed. And yet, in the winter of 2025–26, India’s most dissected batter has quietly returned to the domestic grind, batting like a man with unfinished business rather than fading privileges. At […]
Indian T20I batting in 2025 didn’t just score runs; it rewired expectations. In a year where Team India won 15 of 21 matches (71.42% win rate), the batting unit oscillated between chaos control and calculated carnage. From home dominance against England (4–1) to an undefeated Asia Cup run in the UAE and a rare series […]
Indian selection debates are rarely low-key discussions; they’re usually big-time announcements. The most recent debate is centered around Rishabh Pant, a player who can exist simultaneously in two worlds; he’s vital to India’s Test team success and seems disposable when it comes to their One-Day International (ODI) side. There have been rumors circulating of late […]